psychic trauma

Other forms: psychic traumata

Definitions of psychic trauma
  1. noun
    an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects
    synonyms: trauma
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    types:
    birth trauma
    emotional injury inflicted on an infant by events incident to birth that is alleged to appear in symbolic form in patients with mental illness
    type of:
    mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state
    (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic
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